since martin luther king inspired a generation with his dream for america. we'll ask our sunday panel about the games of the past half century and where the civil rights movement stands today. all right now on "fox news sunday." hello again from fox news in washington.

there are reports and shocking video out of syria this week that seem to show the assad regime is engaged in the largest use of chemical weapons since saddam hussein attacked his people a quarter century ago. bob returned. we are told u.s. navy ships are moving closer to the coast of syria. president obama says this is a big event of grave concern but the president then adds we need to act deliberately. >> what we've seen is that folks will call for immediate action jumping into stuff that does not turn out well.

gets us mired in very difficult situations. >> senator corker, how much proof does president obama need, and if he decide that bashir el assad used chemical weapons on a large scale against his people, what should he do? >> chris, the amount of social media coming out of syria indicates this is not something where opposition forces have contrived something. i think it's very evident that regime has acted in this way. i do think it's always good to be cautious, but my sense is that this has happened. i think we will respond in a surgical way. i hope the president, soon as we get back to washington, will ask for authorization from congress to do something at a very surgical and proportional way. something that gets their attention, that causes them to understand we are not going to put up with this kind of activity. at the same time, i hope it's the kind of action that doesn't move us away from the policy we

have right now where we want to see the syrian opposition group taking the lead on the ground. i hope we'll move our training up. i know we are doing it covertly now. i think we need to move to more industrial strength training on the ground. we need to tilt the balance a little bit more as it relates to the opposition group on the ground. i don't want our actions that are in response to this chemical warfare to alter that. i do think we have to respond. >> let me ask you -- >> senator, let me pick up on two parts of that. you say wait until congress comes back. you think the world can afford to wait a couple more weeks? when you talk about a surgical action, what are you saying? air strikes? either missile strikes or jet fighter strikes or offshore, long distance? >> i think there are numbers of things we can do from the ships we have based off the coast and

other things we can do from countries nearby. you're aware we have people on the ground in very nearby locations. obviously not boots on the ground. i do think we will take action. additional activities, we should respond. i think it's time for us to take a step up and take responsibilities here, too. my guess is they will. i've been talking with this recently this week. i think they will come back. i think they will ask congress for authorization. i hope elliot and i will work together to make that happen, but i do think you are going to see actions taking place there. i do hope the united states force group will be able to get in and verify what's happening. even if not, i think there are indications that this is real. this was not contrived.

obviously, the world is a better place when the united states takes leadership. this is time for us to do this. i hope we will do it soon. >> let me bring in congressman angel. does it make sense for the u.s. military to take action should the effort be to topple assad or to punish him, to basically warn him no more use of chemical weapons? what is your sense of the time frame? >> i think we have to act rather quickly. i think the horrific killings of people murdering his own people, he's been doing it for a while now, but obviously the gas that was used to kill his own people, i think we have to respond. i think we have to respond in conjunction with our nato allies. we have to respond much, i think, as was done in libya with the nato allies. and i think we cannot afford to sit back and wait we certainly cannot wait for the united nations. the russians are there to block everything with their veto.

i look at this situation as analagous to cose voechlt kosovo. the russians were blocking any kind of resolution in the u.s. we should act and should act for humanitarian puf humanitarian purposes and it's in our -- >> how would you react? missile strikes, enforcing the no-fly zone? >> i would certainly do cruise and missile strikes. you can do that with without boots on the ground, without having americans in harm's way. you can destroy the runways, you could destroy his munitions and destroy his fuel. there are lots and lots of things we could do. we could even destroy the syrian air force if we wanted to.

i set a letter to general dempsey to ask what options want we do. we have to move and move quickly. i agree congress needs to be involved. but perhaps not initially. perhaps the president could start and then congress needs to resolve it and ascent to it. we cannot sit still. we've got to move and move quickly. it's a dangerous neighborhood. let's turn to egypt. former dictator mubarak was released from prison, sent to a military hospital with surprisingly little public protest. at the same time the elected president muhammed morsi remains in custody. the white house continues to say that a coup is not a coup. take a look. >> we concluded that it's not in the best interest of the united states to reach a determination on a coup. that is a decision that will be set aside and that we will

evaluate our assistance to the egyptians. >> senator corker, is it time to choose a side in this struggle? the military or the muslim brotherhood? and how do you feel about the fact we are continuing to withhold, not cut off but withhold at least half our military aid this year to the egyptian military? should we go ahead and release that? >> look, chris, there are all kinds of machinations relative to the aid and whether it's obligated. at the end of the day, we had the same kind of relationship with the egyptian military 35 years. i think it's time for us to recalibrate it as i said many times. on the other hand we have 11,000 military officers in the egyptian military that have trained in the united states. they rely upon our country for parts. i think each year we ship about 35,000 parts to the military.

certainly we want them to continue to function. look, we need to have a healthy relationship with the military there. it looks over the last few days that they've been acting in a way that certainly has created security, but not stepping over the top. i think we are beginning, hopefully, i know this is maybe a few days of calmness, but we are beginning to move in the right direction. i think all of us know sometimes we try to move too quickly towards democracy. we authentthink elections make democracy occur. sometimes the governance piece doesn't follow. i'm beginning to see things take shape in a way that i think make sense. no doubt there will be some suspensions. we are going to keep that relationship. it is in our national interest. we have first priority in the suez canal. it's important to americans and important to us to have security in that region. >> excuse me, sir. let me bring in congressman

engle. time to choose a side in egypt? >> if i've got to choose a side from the united states point of view between muslim brotherhood and military, i would certainly not choose the muslim brotherhood. we need to nudge the military toward democracy and push them towards the civilian rule. we had a 35-year relationship with them. it's time to use that relationship with them. we need to work with them. morsi from the muslim brotherhood, in my opinion, was trying to destroy democracy in egypt. the united states needs to look at our interests. you know they do give us over flights over egypt. they put our ships in priority in the suez canal. i don't like when they kill people we have to stand and nudge them, but i think the military relationship we had with the military, i think it needs to continue and we need to work with them.

>> another story, the nsa story where it seems that almost every day there is another revelation that comes out about the fact that the nsa, our government had access to more information, communications involving americans than we had suspected or thought, that they have violated their own rules in collecting thousands of domestic e-mails. senator corker, you have called for the head of the nsa, general keith alexander to brief congress when you get back in september. let me ask you a direct question, sir. as the top republican on senate foreign relations, as you sit here today, do you feel you actually know what the government is and isn't doing in surveilling americans? >> no. i mean i don't think -- there are many people work harder than i do. i'm not on the intelligence committee. obviously, they are privy to information that i am not. absolutely not. that's why i wrote a letter this

week to the president, ask that the head of this organization come in and brief folks from top to bottom to explain every program that's under way, understand so we can understand its intent and to understand how appropriate oversight is taking place. look, i appreciate efforts to keep americans secure. at the same time, this is in front of us. we are not in front of it. every day there are stories, as you judge just mentioned, that are leaked out. the american people want to know that those of us who are elected, elliot and i, understand fully what's happening here. i don't think we do. i would imagine there are even members of the intelligence committee themselves that don't fully understand the gambit of things taking place. it's our responsibility to know those things, to ensure they're in balance, and i hope as soon as we get back there will be a full briefing from top to bottom so that can happen. >> we have just about a minute

left. congressman engle, some time back you voted against re-authorization of the patriot act. how far would you go in limiting government surveillance of americans? >> you know we had an amendment to the appropriations bill cutting off the funding for the nsa surveillance. i voted against that because i don't think you can just cut off a program. you need to replace it with something. i am troubled by the things coming out day after day showing that we have not really been told the truth. i do think that congress needs to revisit this whole issue and come up with a plan. what i've seen so far is really unsatisfactory. i'm troubled by that. we need to revamp the program.

>> thank you for coming in today. we'll stay on top of all these stories. >> thank you. up next, a thrill killing in oklahoma. >> i'm appalled at the behavior of these three children. >> shock and outrage on two continents after prosecutors say a group of teens murdered an australian college student because they were bored. we'll speak with the governor of oklahoma and the d.a. handling the case. vo: two years of grad school. 20 years with the company. thousands of presentations. and one hard earned partnership. it took a lot of work to get this far. so now i'm supposed to take a back seat when it comes to my investments? there's zero chance of that happening. avo: when you work with a schwab financial consultant, you'll get the guidance you need with the control you want. talk to us today. every day we're working to and to keep our commitments. and we've made a big commitment to america.

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we have become all too used to violence in this country a brutal murder in oklahoma shocked the nation. a college student from australia in the u.s. was shot and killed while out for a jog. three teens picked him at random, shot him in the back and drove off because they say they were bored. we'll talk with oklahoma governor mary fallon in a few minutes. first, we want to get the latest on the case from the stevens county district attorney jason hicks. we are learning more, especially about one of the suspects, 15-year-old james edwards. he put videos on the web which we see him playing with a gun, flashing gang signs. he tweeted a number of racist messages including this one, "90% of white people are nasty, hash tag hate them," yet you say you don't intend to treat this as a race-related crime.

sir, why not? >> well, good morning, chris. the reason that i'm not going to be treating this as a hate crime is as far as the evidence goes directly linked to the murder of christopher lane there is nothing inside the files and audio and reports we've been given that would lead us to believe christopher lane was killed simply because of his nationality or because of his race. in the state of oklahoma, our hate crime statute is a misdemeanor. i believe it's more important for us to focus on the death of christopher lane than to focus on the hate and whatnot that edwards spewed. with respect to those tweets, i don't have any evidence in my possession at this time that would allow me to prove that that account is actually owned by edwards or edwards was the one who actually tweeted those statements. >> let me ask but another aspect of this.

we heard some shocking stories about these three suspects, callous indifference. is it true this 15-year-old james edwards was dancing at the police station while being booked for this murder? >> yes, that is true. i described that to the court on tuesday when i was asking the court to hold him without bail here inside the stevens county jail. the description would have been he was dancing, doing twirls, laughing and cutting up during the booking process. he thought the whole thing was a joke. >> which brings me to the big question. i don't know if you can answer it any better than we can. you see these suspects were running around the apartment complex they live playing violent video games and raising themselves. james edwards' mother is in jail. that is no excuse. is that part of the explanation? how have you wrapped your head around the idea these three young men wereso utterly

indifferent to life and death? >> i don't know i'll ever be able to wrap my mind completely around the why or how three individuals could have such a callous attitude and drive down the road and pull the trigger and take the life of somebody out for a jog. i don't know that i'll ever be able to give an explanation as to why there. some of the information that we have indicates they ran loose at an apartment complex here in duncan and really had no parental supervision and had a lot of time playing video games inside their home. to completely understand the why, i don't think i'll ever be able to do that because it's such a senseless act of violence. >> i want to go through a couple of questions about where we go from here? what's the time line when these three, you call them thugs, which is certainly not wrong,

when these three will face trial? >> right. i think my description of them as thugs is actually right. i don't think they're children. they decided to play an adult game and have taken the life of another human being. as far as timeline goes, first part of october there will be preliminary hearing conferences for edwards and luna. then we'll have a preliminary hearing scheduled for jones at the first part of october, as well. anticipate getting through the preliminary hearings. then getting them to trial some time within 12 to 18 months. >> how strong a case do you think you have, mr. hicks? >> i think i've got a very strong case, otherwise we wouldn't be where we are today. >> briefly, if convicted, the two charges with first degree felony murder, edwards and luna, what's the maximum penalty they could face? >> life without parole. in oklahoma murder one charge carries life, life without parole or the death penalty.

because of their age, prohibited by the united states supreme court from seeking the death penalty so the maximum for those two would be life without parole. >> mr. hicks, thank you so much for coming and talking with us today. thank you, sir. >> very good. thank you, chris. i spoke earlier with the governor of oklahoma mary fallon. >> governor, we associate these kind of cold-blooded murders with inner cities, not smalltown oklahoma. how much has this case shaken your state? >> it's absolutely shaken our state down to the core. it unimaginable, unbelievable that something this tragic could happen in the state of oklahoma, especially in one of our great communities in our state in duncan, oklahoma. we are all heart broken. we are shocked and just can't believe that something this horrible could happen to someone who was a very active member of the community, someone who was an active member of the student

campus, beloved by his friends. our hearts and our prayers are with chris lane's family and especially the community of not only duncan, oklahoma, but the university where chris was a student. >> governor, the former deputy prime minister of australia has advised tourists they should boycott the united states to make a statement about gun control and some gun control advocates are making the same point. what do you think of attempts to link this murder to the easy availability of guns in your state? >> don't think this issue is about gun control. it's an issue about murder. it's an issue about three young men who did something very terrible to a very innocent bystander that was jogging through his community. it's very unfortunate what has happened. i certainly understand australia

is very upset. people in oklahoma are very upset, too. people in the united states are very upset with what's happened because it's such a shock that anyone would do what they have done to chris lane. it's unfortunate australia feels that way. united states has been a great friend to australia. i certainly understand there are raw feelings out there certainly raw emotions. i think that is something that would be anticipated that people would have different concerns and different ideas about america itself. >> on the other hand, there are some people on the right who note civil rights leaders and president obama spoke out quite quickly about the trayvon martin case, and yet have remained silent in the case of christopher lane. on wednesday, 48 hours after this became international news, the white house spokesman was asked about the case. take a look.

>> do you have any reaction to the christopher lane case? >> i'm not familiar with it, actually. >> governor, what do you make of the silence of people like al sharpton and quite frankly the silence of the president? >> well, i don't know what to think about that. i think it would be nice if our nation were to certainly express their condolences, how very sorry we are. this is a very unusual circumstance you don't anticipate that someone would create such a brutal crime upon an innocent person. i will tell you you have to the campus of u central university. i was able to shake hands of some of his colleagues and students and baseball players and expressed my condolences to the campus itself, faculty, students, the community. we are going to try to reach out to the family. i have the family's phone

number. when time differences allow, i'm going to personally call the family in australia and hope i can get hold of them and visit with them and tell them how very, very sorry and sad the people of oklahoma are. >> excuse me, governor, do you think the president should speak out on this, as well? particularly given his involvement in the trayvon martin case? >> i think it would be a nice gesture for him to do that. especially since the country of australia has expressed their sentiments as to the murder itself. i think it would be a nice gesture for them to be able to do that. i know that's what i'm going to do. >> briefly, we have less an minute left. i'm going to ask you a big question. what on earth do you think would lead three teenagers to gun down a complete stranger because they say they were bored and had nothing to do? >> well, it's hard to get into the mind of those three teenagers.

it's just unbelievable, unfathomable they would have a thought in their mind to gun down somebody so innocent, just taking a jog in the community. in america, we do have different families that are broken we have poverty rates. we have those that are uneducated. we have substance abuse issues. we certainly have a lot of video games and movies that depict violence in our society. that is something we as parents certainly, as community people should take at heart to always try to make things better in our communities for our families themselves. and certainly make things better in society. >> governor, i have to leave it there, obviously. a big discussion and we'll have to continue it. thank you for talking with us. >> you're welcome. thank you very much. up next 50 years after the march on washington. how far have we come? our sunday panel looks at martin luther king's message and civil

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50 years ago this week martin luther king jr led a march on washington to the steps of the lincoln memorial and delivered this iconic message. >> i have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. i have a dream today.

>> so, where does the civil rights movement stand today? time to bring in our sunday group. former republican senator scott brown. kirs ten powers. on the one hand, 1970, there were 1,469 black elected officials in this country. now there are more than 10,500. in 1964, 26% of blacks 25 or older completed four years of high school. now that is 85%. the unemployment rate is now 6.6% for whites, 12.6% for blacks. black men are six times as likely as whites to spend time in prison. juan, as somebody who has written extensively over the

civil rights movement this year, how far have we come what is left to do? >> i don't think there is any question we've come a long way. in personal terms my dad couldn't be sitting here on a major network talking about the news 50 years ago or 100 years before that, emancipation proclamation. you think of president obama, 50 years ago nobody would have said a black man could be president. or condoleezza rice as the face of america to the world. colin powell. you think of senator scott from south carolina, a black senator? or you think of goodness gracious, thurgood marshall on the court, clarence thomas. you've got to talk about family

breakdown, the fact 70% of blacks are born out of wedlock. i think dr. king would cry. you've got to talk about there is a horrific dropout rate in the country, failure of urban schools. that's the civil rights challenge of this generation. and the culture. i was just listening to your interview with governor fallon. think about the culture. jay-z and his latest album. he's using the "n" word repeatedly. it's pornographic. it's invited for people to think authentic blackness you've got to be hip hop and hard. this is the tragedy of our day. >> david, where are we 50 years after "i have a dream?" >> not only 50 years after "i have a dream," chris but 270 years after the founding of this country. we reversed course on what was a worldwide tragedy. racism exists and we can't pretend it doesn't exists but can't pretend it exists

everywhere. all the things juan talks about are true. we advanced to 2013. we need to tackle the new challenges. it's moral decay in this country. when it happens in the black community, it's not just the black community, it's the american community. what we see happen in any city in america, we see an epidemic. when you talk about the facts and the numbers, single parent birth rate, unemployment, failure to graduate, functional illiteracy in detroit. this is a major urban environment. a major failure. this shows the world america has made great strides and americans made great strides but we have a lot of challenges. we need to move into 2013 and take these views on in our current environment. education is the civil rights issue today what we do as a nation is we degrade and we lose our culture, our work force.

we lose our ability. america is the land of opportunity. if you're not educated, you can't take advantage of that opportunity. >> you know, 50 years after the march on washington, one of the questions is how much longer the government should give special treatment to minorities? back in 2003 then justice sandra day o'connor was the swing vote upholding continued racial preference necessary college tuition. she said that should end back then in 25 years. she backed off that 25-year deadline. but at some point does affirmative action, does special treatment need to end? >> i think president obama addressed that before saying perhaps we should be looking more at economic inequality. we've made a lot of progress. obviously, we have an african-american president, a lot of people in high positions. pew asked americans how much progress they thought we made. only 45% thought we made real

progress toward racial equality. african-americans are 32%. i think americans seem to be in agreement we have a long way to go. the march on washington was also about jobs. it was a march for jobs and freedom. pew also found for the past six decades african-american unemployment has been double that of white people. it's not something that's just happening in this economy. it's something that's been going on since the beginning of time. >> i guess the question i'm trying to get at, senator brown, at what point have we gone as far as the country, as the government needs to go in putting the thumb on the scale? it is 50 years after martin luther king's speech. there were hundreds of years in discrimination. when do we say, you're on your own. not this kind of special preference affirmative action.

>> i think we are getting close. i agree with all the comments from the panel. we made huge strides. there are certain pockets still where there is inequality. there are disadvantages that need to be addressed. do we do that with government intervention, or educating our kids or youth, black on black violence, 90% plus. step back from glorifying the hip-hop movement and other types of movements that glorify violence. there are certain pockets, i think. we are getting very close to just letting americans, black, white, all races, colors and creeds move forth with all qualifications and stand on their merits. >> i think the largest argument of this day, this time is one that says, is it personal responsibility that would be the conservative take or is it the case there is systemic racism in this society that continues as a

legacy of slavery and legal discrimination in our country. i think you've got to go at this point with taking personal responsibility for your family, your community, your neighborhood. just like sandra day o'connor, i don't believe white america, in fact a much more diverse america is going to allow affirmative action preference to exist. it doesn't exist in any great way in the fortune 500 now. people have this perception, and that's why the court ruled the way it did in terms of higher education in michigan and texas. i don't think that is going to exist. i think you need civil rights leaders to speak out against crime in the black community, to speak out against these hip-hop leaders, to say to kids, here is how you can make it in this country and stop thinking just because you're black there is a reason or excuse for not achieving. >> all right. we have to take a break here, when we come back, the ongoing split inside the gop how to stop obama care. first, get fox news' daily

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i think there is far too much naval gazing and looking at polls, being scared of political consequences, stand up, do the right thing and lead and the politics will take care of itself. >> if you don't want to be a problem-solver, you're putting yourself ahead of the movement, you're putting your personal ambition in front of your patriotic duty. >> senators disagree how far is too far in opposing president obama's policies. we are back now with the panel. there was commentary this week that the gop is actually in worse shape with voters now than they were right after the election last november. the argument is for all the talk

about learning lessons, post mortems they further alienated hispanics, women and guyays, th are stuck in an argument to shut down the government and defund obama care. >> i believe washington as a whole is dysfunctional. as a republican party, there needs to be room for a ted cruz, people like me, rand paul, others. we need to have the ability to share those great ideas and find a consensus and move our country forward. what i have found is that people are tired and fed up the devisiveness and lack of putting our country's interest ahead of personal and political interests. whether they shut down the government, that is what harry reid and chuck schumer want. that will show the republicans holding everything up. you're not going to get your paychecks and they'll throw it on us. obama care is not good.

i voted to get rid of it three or four times we have it in massachusetts. unions are trying to get out of it. you have everybody trying to get waivers. it's crushing job creation, job growth. we need to find a way to do it better. >> house republican speaker john boehner held a conference call with its fellow house republicans this week. we wants to put off the fight over funding obama care offering a short-term spending bill to fund the government for a couple of months. the idea seems to be instead of threatening to shut down the government unless you defund obama care in september, get all these issues together and have one big fight over that and the debt limit in november. clearly, he wants to avoid any possibility of shutting down the government exactly because as senator brown says, he thinks it's going to end up hurting problems. do you think that is a smart political idea? >> the old guard is right on this. this is very much the new guard versus the old guard which makes

it very interesting when you have rubio, rand paul, ted cruz on one side and mccain, coburn, boehner on the other side. what they are disagreeing about is tactics. all republicans agree you should defund obama care. it's just a question of how. i suspect the new guard thinks if they don't shut down the government that it's probably not going to get defunded. while i disagree with them substantively what they are trying to do, i think there is something refreshing in the fact they seem to stand up on what they believe, not just this issue, but a lot of issues, and that is something, frankly, i can't hardly think of anyone in the democratic party who behaves like any of these three men who really have challenged the party on a lot of issues. >> david, to pick up on this question, the old guard versus the new guard, the new guard, more conservative republicans, the so-called tea party faction say they don't want to put off this fight until november. they want to fund obama care,

willing to shut down the government and have it now. you can argue whether it's the courage of their convictions, but is that going to end up hurting the republican party, not helping it? >> no one knows. everyone is trying to determine the outcome of this, chris. when you look at the old guard versus the new guard. we had an old guard in washington that has become the political class. the political class has been there for 30 years on both sides the aisle plus. they have no new voices, no new input. they're just simply functioning within a system that is very big, and frankly, slow to move. washington, d.c., does not work well with comprehensive anything. obama care, comprehensive bills. look at putting these fights together in one comprehensive fight. why are we not tackling solutions, finding solutions incrementally on issue, whether it's border security, energy poll circumstance immigration, continued resolutions. we have a political class, in america, it's americans versus

the political class because we now have basically a group of all the guards who decide our future based on the old guard and the new guard or the new voices need to be heard. the reagan principle. we need a big tent we need to bring everyone in. this is an american problem, not a republican or democratic problem. >> if you're saying we don't do well with comprehensive reforms, does that mean we shouldn't have a comprehensive rollback instead of saying defund obama care and shut down the government, maybe go after obama care in bits and pieces? >> obama care you use everything you can in washington to get rid of it, incrementally, comprehensively, you use every trick, every tool. this is a train wreck for the american people. as senator brown talked about, whether it's unions, waivers, ups, all these decisions are being made on obama care and are hurting our economy. they will continue to hurt our economy. this is a multitrillion nightmare down the road.

>> there were some more big bumps in the road for obama care this week. let's put some of them up. ups and the university of virginia say they will no longer cover working spouses because of the cost of health insurance under obama care. some companies say they will have to raise premiums to cover obama care. delta airlines said this could cost them $100 million a year, the increased cost of obama care, which raises the question. forget the politics and republican party, could the fact of the implementation when the rubber hits the road could obama care be a big political burden for democrats? in that sense maybe republicans should sit back and let it happen? >> i think the big problem here is the dysfunction we've been talking about. it's not with obama care. every major social program we had roll out in american history, social security, medicare, medicaid, things so popular today, they all had bumps in the road. they are major programs.

you can anticipate that with obama care. i think republicans are making a huge mistake if they think this is going to somehow rebound to their benefit. "wall street journal" had a poll about two weeks ago. most americans say, this is going to happen. there is no way you are going to turn this around at this point. there is a democratic majority in the senate, there is president obama democrat in the white house, they are not going to allow to you defund or do away with obama care. that is ridiculous. >> this isn't a bump in the road, it's a giant sinkhole in the american economy. look how the reality how obama care was passed. this was a party line vote. it was not based on fixing the system. there is something americans need to realize here. while it's only 2,000 something pages, which is ridiculous in nature, regulations are somewhere near 19,000 pages. this is a train wreck. >> this is no train wreck. if republicans were serious. >> don't they make it better? 40 votes to try to veto it, not

one vote for an alternative that says here is how we can make it better. >> that is not true. >> name one program, one time they voted on -- >> with all due respect, when i got there as the 41st senator, we tried to fix it and they would not bring up -- all the amendments they would bring up, they would not move it forward. they knew if we opened up and passed one amendment, the whole bill would fail. it's a mess. it's a train wreck. democrats and republicans are saying it's a train wreck. individual states should have the ability to determine the kind of health care they want. the federal government should not make that determination for. states. crushing jobs, 18 new taxes. we are in deep trouble with it. we should be focusing on debt, deficit, taxes, spending, jobs, national security. >> you were seen at the iowa state fair -- >> go right to your belly. >> i don't need anything that goes right to my belly.

are you going to run for president? >> i'm going to focus on taking my messages as our panel here said. right now there needs to be room for everybody in our tent in order for us to be effective. i'm going to travel around the country and see what happens. >> thank you, panel. see you next week. it was not a no remember our discussion continues every sunday on panel plus. find it on fox news sunday.com and follow us on twitter. our power player of the week, the new mascot of the u.s. marine corps. every day we're working to be an even better company -

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